tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34976313392915345172018-12-17T02:00:34.475-05:00KrazyKelt's Killer KarnivalWriting, reading, and general mayhem for the literate.Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-70369417791187726272013-02-19T12:48:00.000-05:002013-02-19T12:48:06.792-05:00Something Interesting (to me at any rate)
I know this is pretty dumb, but I just got totally jazzed when I discovered that my story from ARCANE II is one of three featured as representative of the anthology's weirdness at Cold Fusion Media's website. It has probably been there for weeks, but while searching for clues to when the print edition might be coming out, I happened to notice it. That's a thumbnail synopsis of "The Dubious Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-30640679843490962412013-02-18T22:04:00.000-05:002013-02-18T23:48:09.514-05:00Paradigm: Volume One is a Nook Book!Just a quick note to say that an anthology containing one of my older (but still a favorite) stories is now available as an e-book, exclusively (as far as I can tell) from Barnes & Noble. It is "Hard Winter," a darkly comedic Beaver Island story with only a couple of survivors. All characters are wholly invented, and any resemblance to actual persons is purely coincidental, just so you know.
Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-61671775318599814152013-01-23T13:17:00.000-05:002013-01-23T13:17:39.003-05:00
It's here! My story, "The Dubious Apotheosis of Baskin Gough," along with 20 other great stories are available in one creepy package known as ARCANE II.. Check out the e-book at Amazon,, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords. The Print edition will be out soon for those of you who, like me, prefer that inky pulpy smell to the ambient glow of a screen. Help spread the word to anyone who you think Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-64281271770156122332013-01-04T21:05:00.001-05:002013-01-04T21:05:04.022-05:00One of my favorite sources for what's weird in real life, Boing Boing, features an article that resonates with me. According to Smithsonian Magazine smuggling of narwhal tusks has landed a couple of Americans in hot water.
The scene that was the inspiration for my most recent story, "The Dubious Apotheosis of Baskin Gough," centers around a narwhal in the foyer of a grand home. After Keith Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-10359773762139293872012-12-10T14:47:00.000-05:002012-12-10T14:58:19.627-05:00Cover Art for Arcane II Revealed!
Take a look at this amazing image by French artist, Nihil.
Look closely. Blow it up to full size. Soak it in.
“Le grand ordonnateur”
Let it inhabit your brain a bit.
But not too much--it's pretty damn creepy.
I am thrilled to say that this fine image will reportedly be gracing the cover of Arcane II, the much anticipated second volume in the Arcane Anthology series, edited by Nathan Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-46359746540615091092012-12-01T14:39:00.001-05:002012-12-10T13:27:05.537-05:00Weird Scholar charts...well, the weirdSomething interesting from the Weird Fiction Review, Ann and Jeff Vandermeer's site dedicated to the celebration and exploration of The Weird. Stephen Graham Jones, author and associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder, has shared a flow chart that attempts to pin down the notoriously squirmy and tentacular genre of weird fiction.
I have to admit to having developedPatrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-73209903618727094802012-11-30T00:24:00.000-05:002012-12-10T13:32:16.488-05:00New(ish) Story Finds a HomeWell, it has been a while, but at last, I have a sale to announce. One of my newer stories, "The Dubious Apotheosis of Baskin Gough," will be appearing in the second volume of Cold Fusion Media's fine Arcane anthology series in early 2013 (assuming the Mayan calendar is wrong and we're all still here). It will be coming out in both e-book and print formats, and I will, of course, post details Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-34205417987988512002012-10-08T13:20:00.001-04:002012-10-08T13:20:12.305-04:00Black Gate's Opening Salvo a Swashbuckling Romp with Heart
Jason E. Thummel’s “The Duelist” appeared at Black Gate recently, their
first online fiction offering, which signals an exciting new phase in this fine publication’s life cycle.
A rollicking, swashbuckling adventure set amongst the aristocratic
intrigues of a city where the distinction between the wealthy Uphill
aristocrats and the poor folk who live below in Plague Bottom is everything, “Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-77302638605666972082012-10-06T17:13:00.000-04:002012-10-06T17:26:45.365-04:00Why I have to remember to check out Locus more often -- or Black Gate is back!
I used to have a subscription to Locus Magazine, which bills itself as "The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field" and is, in fact, the premiere news source for anyone interested in the business/writing end of the speculative fiction field. It was a Christmas gift from my wonderful mother-in-law/drinking buddy (when my wife was pregnant the first time, her mother, who we lived Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-44733529663395135852012-10-05T00:36:00.000-04:002012-10-05T00:38:07.399-04:00They just don't build them like they used to (wait, I don't think they ever built them like that)
For the past week or so, I've been noticing a shallow pool of water under our furnace. The basement is a bit shady to begin with, in more ways than one, but actual standing water is unusual. It appeared to me, as a layman, that the water might be seeping up through concrete where the PVC waste pipe goes down under the slab floor.
The landlord concurred, hypothesizing that the pipe was backing Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-12855375370819224332012-10-03T12:44:00.000-04:002012-10-03T15:11:22.394-04:00Theodora Goss at ClarkesworldHave you ever read a story that was just right -- that is, a story that was exactly what you needed and just when you needed it? I came across Theodora Goss's "England Under the White Witch" at Clarkesworld today, and I couldn't be more impressed. Goss's name is one of those I've seen around a lot in the last few years, but this is the first of her work I've read, and am I ever glad that I Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-65030250578564447352012-09-21T23:41:00.000-04:002012-09-22T07:22:52.636-04:00Seth Dickinson's "Worth of Crows" at BCSIn my last post, I mentioned that I would be blogging more regularly. That was over a year ago. So, yeah, I dropped the ball a bit there. But lets let bygones be bygones. I just had to pop in here tonight to give a nod to an exceptionally fine story I just read.
Over at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Seth Dickinson's "Worth of Crows" is really, really worth checking out, well worth every penny (thoughPatrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-68927002859814231642011-06-04T20:35:00.000-04:002011-06-04T23:43:43.314-04:00From higher ed. contract negotiations to painting ferry boats--arguably not that differentIt's good to be home. And to be done with nearly 4 months of negotiations with the CMU administration. That's right, it was a long haul, but the non-tenure track faculty at CMU have a four year contract. It wasn't easy, nor most of the time was it fun, but we did it. We didn't get everything we wanted (and deserved), but in this political and economic climate, we did fairly well. Now comes Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-6044438813736293252010-11-17T15:00:00.004-05:002010-11-17T15:46:24.747-05:00Publishing NewsMy most recent story, "Wit's Soul" can now be read on the exciting new online art and literature review, Ad-Hominem. Incidentally, Larissa is also the featured artist on Ad-Hominem right now, and some examples of her fine photography can be found there.In addition, "Hard Winter," which may be my favorite of the stories I've written, is now available free of charge in a PDF version of Paradigm Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-30204168522138024302010-10-22T09:22:00.001-04:002010-10-22T09:25:04.372-04:00Look at All Those Zeros!!! (the numbers, not the deans)In an article Wednesday explaining how the salaries of the five shiny new deans of the incipient medical school are already costing the university $1.37 million a year*, the Provost explained that the salaries are comparable to those of other medical schools. Isn’t it interesting how the inflation of administrative salaries is tied to what other universities are paying, and lacks any correlationPatrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-35393640493334882942010-01-01T12:54:00.004-05:002010-01-01T13:34:04.121-05:00New Years WishesWe made it to another one. Can you believe it? 2010?! That's like sci-fi territory! David Brin's The Postman takes place in the future still, but not for long (2015). We might have already passed Blade Runner. Anyway, this time of year, we typically find ourselves mired in regrets over things left unfinished (or those at which we outright failed), while hoping for something more and better Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-63941705159840676152009-09-16T16:08:00.006-04:002009-09-16T23:42:17.131-04:00A Modest Proposal Upon the Occasion of a Routine Medical Procedure Involving the Removal of a Small Piece of My NephewFirst, let me get this out of the way: My name is Patrick, and I'm a circumcised man. Whew! That was easier than I thought it would be. But there it is, the bald truth. Why, you might find yourself wondering, did I feel it necessary to share this juicy bit of information with the 1.6 readers of this blog? Because I have a new nephew, and like me, he is circumcised, although the experience isPatrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-81870206629034759292009-09-09T22:44:00.004-04:002009-09-09T23:02:29.971-04:00The rebirth of the Novel?I am always on the lookout for anything that articulates my own feelings about writing and reading better than I can articulate them myself. This evening, I came across this impressive and comprehensive article about plot and the novel (and more generally, in all fiction). I once wrote an application letter for a scholarship, in which I lamented the death of plot in contemporary literary Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-8692296495669416592009-05-06T13:32:00.005-04:002009-05-06T13:47:20.083-04:00Michael Chabon...at long last.<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-11917376142133343622009-04-29T16:45:00.012-04:002009-04-29T17:22:02.570-04:00Neil Giaman's Creepy Button-Eye FolkGaiman, Neil. (2002). Coraline. New York: HarperCollins.Neil Gaiman’s Coraline is the story of a young girl who is bored with the way her summer vacation is winding down. Both of her parents work from home, each at his or her own computer in his or her own study. Coraline enjoys exploring the gardens surrounding the old house in which her family rents a flat, but a late summer rainstorm puts a Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-20304418049856199992009-04-27T11:43:00.005-04:002009-04-27T13:17:33.411-04:00Sherman Alexie's Manifesto for HopeAlexie, Sherman. (2007) The Absolutely True Diary of a part-Time Indian. New York: Little, Brown & Co. Sherman Alexie’s 2007 YA title The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a spirited (pardon the pun, if you will) look at a particular life in a very particular situation. Arnold Spirit, aka Junior, is a Spokane Indian born and raised in Wellpinit, Washington, who undergoes a painful Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-8524214987529162242009-04-27T09:54:00.001-04:002009-04-27T09:58:39.327-04:00More to come!This is just a heads up if anyone is paying attention. Later today, I will be posting the first in a series of book reviews. They are not the newest books, but they might be new to you. There will be some YA, some fantasy, some mainstream, and some hard to categorize stuff as well. So come on back and check it out.Hopefully this is me, turning over a new leaf and becoming much more attentive Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-56234939876027555422008-08-13T12:19:00.007-04:002008-08-13T14:02:00.570-04:00The Bees KneesWell, it has been a while. I apologize, most sincerely, for my tardiness, but it seems that living in the woods without electricity and working 10 hour days doesn't leave much time for doing anything more than keeping up a minimal e-mail correspondence with a few friends and colleagues. Summer is almost over, and I hate to say it, but as usual I'm glad. I need a break from this kind of Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-4896914199369553942008-07-02T10:20:00.006-04:002008-07-02T10:49:26.119-04:00Better Late Than LaterAt long last, photographic proof of my reproductive capacity! I've been meaning to get a few photos up here for weeks now, so here they are. This is Lysander, who is now 5 weeks old, but was younger (and thinner) in these shots.I've also been meaning to scratch together an interview for you all, but nothing is ready yet. I've also been working on a review to try and get my foot in the door Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497631339291534517.post-44505258631734697642008-06-20T10:25:00.003-04:002008-06-20T10:59:05.630-04:00I'm not much for merchandising, but...I was just checking in on one of the most intriguing fantasy artists I know of, and came across this picture, which I had to share.If you don't recognize these lil' fellas, they are straight out of the pages of Froud's collaboration with a colleague of mine at CMU, Ari Berk, which is entitled, appropriately, Goblins!. You really should check it out if you haven't already. I have actually had Patrick McGinnityhttps://plus.google.com/100054732439187011754noreply@blogger.com2